Jury to vote on banning signs

Citizens will have the chance to weigh in on a proposed parish ordinance to limit roadside signage when the Morehouse Parish Police Jury meets in August.

Wes Helbling

Citizens will have the chance to weigh in on a proposed parish ordinance to limit roadside signage when the Morehouse Parish Police Jury meets in August.

The new ordinance, introduced by juror Jason Crockett in Monday's regular meeting, was modeled on a similar law in Ouachita Parish and is intended to promote beautification in Morehouse Parish by reducing small signs on public property and right-of-ways.

Such signs are “detrimental to the environment” in unincorporated parts of the parish by “obstructing the view of motorists, impeding mowing and other public road mainenace, becoming litter, and being generally of an unsightly nature.”

Read the full story in Wednesday's print edition of the Enterprise.

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